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View Plans“ ”When you walk the walk, whether successful or not, you feel more indifferent and robust to people's opinion, freer, more real.
About Nassim Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.
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Additional quotes by Nassim Taleb
Humans somehow fail to recognize situations outside the contexts in which they usually learn about them.
Adam Smith himself made the analogy of the economy as a watch or a clock that once set in motion continues on its own.
We do not spontaneously learn that we don't learn that we don't learn. The problem lies in the structure of our minds: we don't learn rules, just facts, and only facts. Metarules (such as the rule that we have a tendency to not learn rules) we don't seem to be good at getting. We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion.